In the fall of 1997, a sixteen-year-old boy set out to document his family's Thanksgiving dinner. What he purportedly captured on his video camera was more than just a family get together. The following footage, if real, could be the most important evidence ever, supporting the possibility that we are not alone in the universe. This footage contains explicit and frightening images. Now for the first time ever, watch the complete and unedited tape and decide for yourself. Alien Abduction: Did it Happen?
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County was based on an earlier work done by director Dean Alioto, which was simply titled The McPherson Tape. The film had a limited distribution that was cut short by a fire that destroyed the distributor. Rather than fade away, someone unknown to Alioto re-cut the footage and circulated it in the UFO community as a real story. Fairly soon, shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Encounters, and others tracked down Alioto to see if he knew the origin of the tape and if it, in fact, was real. Alioto laughed it off, but the film generated enough interest to be adapted into a full-length TV-movie. The rest is history